In the previous SASS recipe post we discussed using loops to create complex series of CSS classes. This week we use a few more of SASS's helper functions to make button color styles build themselves.

Emacs vs Vim. iPhone vs Android. Of all of the nerd arguments, none hits closer to home for Ruby developers than HAML vs ERB. Proponents of HAML look at writing HTML as a dirty practice to be avoided at all costs and look down upon "mere" ERB authors. Meanwhile there's SASS, a language syntactically close kin to HAML and, until last week, one that even rode along inside the HAML gem. HAML abstracts HTML, SASS abstracts CSS. I'm not here to stop you from using HAML if you like it. Go for it. However, I'm tired of having an aesthetic choice that some developers make bandied about as if it were "the only way" to do things.

A quick tip for users who like the idea of using SASS-powered stylesheets, but may not want to bother setting up a development framework to do so.